Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45778 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2008:7
Publisher: 
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
The vocational employment training program is the most expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment and outcome, dealing with selectivity on unobservables. We demonstrate the appropriateness of this approach in our con-text by studying the enrollment process. We develop a model allowing for duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity (leading to spurious duration dependence) in the treatment effect itself, and we prove non-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a large significantly positive effect on exit to work shortly after exiting the program. The effect at the individual level diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration is small.
Subjects: 
vocational training
program evaluation
duration analysis
selectivity bias
dynamic treatments
active labor market policy
identification
JEL: 
J64
C21
C41
C14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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